Ping Ping and Fu Shuang arrived at Zoo Atlanta from China on Sept. 27, but visitors cannot see them yet. The zoo says the pandas will undergo around a month of routine quarantine and has not announced when public viewing will begin.
Male Ping Ping and female Fu Shuang were both born in 2020. They are part of a new 10-year agreement involving Zoo Atlanta and China’s Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding; Atlanta’s previous pandas left in October 2024 after a 25-year loan ended.
The pandas traveled on a private chartered FedEx 777 flight from China, then made the roughly 10-mile trip from the airport to the zoo by truck. They will live in the former panda exhibit with upgrades; the zoo plans to announce habitat details and a visitor date.
